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By Monday morning, this year's snapshot will have come fully into focus. Here are five looks at how it might play out — and the story it might tell.

The voices in smart speakers and smartphones are offering contradicting predictions on the Eagles' chances of winning the Super Bowl.

A war photographer comes home. But where is home?

Nearly 10 years after her DSO debut, Elena Urioste returns in a performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, part of the orchestra’s ongoing exploration of his works.

The Kimmel Center has announced most of the schedule of this summer's Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts.

A handful of small theater companies in Philadelphia have formed a collaborative set-building company.

It is safe to say that there was no one else like Mark E. Smith.

The Blake family meets for Thanksgiving dinner. And you know what that can be like.

Jim Thome spent the majority of his career in Cleveland, but won lots of fans while playing in Philadelphia.

A Philadelphia theater company is premiering a new play this week, dealing with sexual assault on a college campus.

The Fall is known as one of the defining post-punk bands of the mid-1980s, mixing punk's acerbic attitude with various elements of krautrock, garage rock and art rock.

Two atomic scientists — one from Germany and the other from occupied Denmark — meet quietly during World War II. What about?

Le Guin crafted fantastic worlds to grapple with profoundly difficult questions here on Earth, from class divisions to feminist theory.